This month marks the 60th anniversary of the Freedom of Information Act, the landmark government transparency law that has helped reveal and publicize critical information about everything from the Vietnam War to FBI surveillance to CIA torture. For decades, FOIA has played a crucial role in uncovering and rectifying government wrongdoing. Today, however, advocates say that the government’s…
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Use of force incidents reported to ICE spiked during the first two months of the second Trump administration despite agents receiving training on respecting individuals’ constitutional rights, according to recently obtained documents. American Oversight, a nonprofit government watchdog group, filed a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request last year, seeking information on the Trump…
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An agency within the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) tasked with ensuring that electronic messages on the devices of its workforce comply with public records laws admitted last week that it has stopped using software to do so. Instead, ever since April, workers have been told to take screenshots on their own devices in order to abide by the law — a shift in policy that has a high…
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